Quote of the Day: Henrik Ibsen
Bumpshack (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.” Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People, 1882 Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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Mad Men: Three Ibsen Plays
The Confluence (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... iTunes). And then I saw the method in his Madness. Weiner is recreating at least three plays by Henrik Ibsen. Here is RD’s Ibsen Theory of Mad Men: Ibsen play #1: Don Draper is Peer Gynt Run away! Run away! Peer Gynt is an adventurous dreamer. He is a creative and gifted storyteller. But his whole life is one of avoidance. Early on in the play, he runs off with the rich...
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Ibsen, In A Time Capsule
New Haven Independent (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Henrik Ibsen famously said that to write is to sit in judgment not on others but on oneself. By measure of The Master Builder , which opened the Yale Rep's current season Thursday night, the great 19th-century Norwegian playwright was hard on himself -- yet light on a 2009 audience.
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Let me tell you about scientific management
The Bureau Of Sabotage (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority” - Henrik Ibsen In many ways, I guess you have to hand it to Peter Mandelson. Not only has his Machiavellianism and sheer stubborn unflushability taken him to the top of his field, sometimes he has been known to let the true intentions of the NuLab project fall from his lips where others would obfuscate...
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the knut
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
In the spring of 1891, 31-year-old Knut Hamsun, penniless and hounded by debtors, embarked on a lecture tour of his native Norway. He had recently published his first successful novel, "Hunger"; now, he hoped to bolster his reputation with a public assault on the old guard of Norwegian writers, including playwright Henrik Ibsen. Hamsun padded lecture halls with friendly artists and publishers,...
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'Antichrist' wins Nordic film prize
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
"I am very happy and I think it is fantastic," Von Trier said in a statement. "I am especially glad that it is a Nordic prize. I feel very close ties to Norway and Sweden, and I have got a lot of inspiration from Henrik Ibsen, Edvard Munch and August Strindberg, and, when it comes to films, directors Bo Widerberg and Ingmar Bergman are in my top 10."
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The Importance of Being Earnest - Greenwich Playhouse
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... women worldwide. Galleon Theatre Company’s other acclaimed productions of classics include Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House , Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull and Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends . The Importance of Being Earnest has costume design by Richard Cooke whose design credits include the feature films The Phantom of the Opera and Lassie as well as the recent series of Hustle ; lighting...
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Lost in a World of Play: A Doll's House and Toy Story
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
by Lawrence Horsburgh (Part of Pixar Week ) I would be the first to grant that the similarity in the titles - A Doll's House and Toy Story -- is unintentionally suggestive, and that not only would it be anachronistic and overreaching to suggest that Henrik Ibsen was somehow attempting to articulate the themes later explored in Pixar's film, but that it is moreover equally intellectually...
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Private Lives by Noel Coward - Open Space Theatre Company
Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
... issue-based drama. Previous productions are One Glass Wall by Danusia Iwaszko and Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen. Productions lined up for 2010 include 84 Charing Cross Road, by james Roose-Evans, Betrayal by Harold Pinter and Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller. Further information from Open Space, Tel. 01379 855101 www.openspacetheatre.org.uk
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A not very likeable character
Applied Abstractions (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Henrik Ibsen by Robert Ferguson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Found this in my bookshelf when looking for Ibsen's collected for one of my daughters. Good, mostly based on correspondence, traditional chronological discussion, underscores Ibsen's very secluded nature and tendency to write himself into every play. Not to mention his love-hate relationship with his home country,...
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court of judgment
ursprache (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Poetry 'tis a court Of judgment on the soul. —Henrik Ibsen, Lyrical Poems by Henrik Ibsen (Elkin Mathews, 1902, selected and translated by R. A. Streatfeild)